Ecologists (I'm one of 'em) have argued for years about whether ecosystems are drive by bottom-up processes (ie, zooplankton ultimately dictate how many sharks there will be) or top-down processes (ie, the top predators are the ones that control the system). This latter argument has led to the Apex predator theory, in which there's a dominant critter that pretty much resides at the system's "Apex" and runs the show.. Picture the Genghis Khan of the natural world.

Hence my team, the Apex Predators. Unfortunately, they behaved more like "mid-level prey" for much of the year.